David Patterson (computer scientist)

Biography

David Andrew Patterson (born November 16, 1947) is an American computer scientist and academic who has held the position of professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1976. He is a computer pioneer . He announced retirement in 2016 after serving nearly forty years, becoming a distinguished software engineer at Google . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He currently is vice chair of the board of directors of the RISC-V Foundation, [ 7 ] and the Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at UC Berkeley. [ 8 ] Patterson is noted for his pioneering contributions to reduced instruction set computer (RISC) design, having coined the term RISC, and by leading the Berkeley RISC project. [ 9 ] As of 2018, 99% of all new chips use a RISC architecture. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] He is also noted for leading the research on redundant arrays of inexpensive disks ( RAID ) storage, with Randy Katz . [ 12 ] His books on computer architecture , co-authored with John L. Hennessy , are widely used in computer science education . Hennessy and Patterson won the 2017 Turing Award for their work in developing RISC. Fields: Computer systems, [ Education: University of California, Los Angeles BA MS PhD Award Citation: .mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0} Charles Stark Draper Prize (2022) Turing Award (2017) Eckert–Mauchly Award [ 1 ] (2008) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2006) [ 2 ] Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ACM Fellow (1994) [ 3 ]

About the Turing Award

The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and is colloquially known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing."

Quick Facts

• Award: ACM A.M. Turing Award
• Added: 2026-02-07
• Source: Wikipedia
• Prize: $1,000,000 (USD)
• Presented by: ACM

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Notable Winners

• Donald Knuth (1974)
• Tim Berners-Lee (2016)
• Geoffrey Hinton (2018)
• Yoshua Bengio (2018)
• Yann LeCun (2018)